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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Hot Weather, Camp Meeting, Second World War, First World War and Poetry.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What adjective did White use to describe the schoolteacher's tasks in "Education"?
(a) Herculean.
(b) Simple.
(c) Augean.
(d) Pythagorean.

2. In "Walden," White wrote, "I have never knelt at the grave of a philosopher nor placed wreaths on" what?
(a) Decayed philosophers.
(b) Moldy poets.
(c) Sickly actors.
(d) Dead presidents.

3. Where was E. B. White born?
(a) Queens, New York.
(b) Bangor, Maine.
(c) Mt. Vernon, New York.
(d) Brooklyn, New York.

4. In what grade was White's son in "Education"?
(a) Second.
(b) Third.
(c) Fourth.
(d) First.

5. Where had White's son attended a "medium-priced private institution" in "Education"?
(a) New Jersey.
(b) Massachusetts.
(c) New York.
(d) Connecticut.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did White write his friend had around his land in "Poetry"?

2. What did White write "a hot-weather sign" in "Hot Weather"?

3. What did White see hunting in a field as he drove his son to school in "Second World War"?

4. The speaker in "Camp Meeting" spoke about his financial plan for taking care of who in the United States?

5. What movie did White cite in which Bette Davis plays a woman who relinquishes her wealth to move to the country to be with her physician husband in "Movies"?

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